欧美高清

Publications

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The Phonetics and Phonology of Approximants (2026) (2026)

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Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol 40, pp. 78-100 (2026)

, Stuart-Smith Jane, , Murali Mridhula, Taylor Lauren, Smith Amy,

2026 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (2026)

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33rd world congress of the IALP (2025)

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Congress of the 20th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, pp. 1 (2025)

, , Stuart-Smith Jane, , Smith Amy, Taylor Lauren, Murali Mridhula, ,

2025 International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference (2025)

Professional Activities

Participant

11/9/2025

Contributor

24/6/2025

Contributor

10/6/2025

Recipient

12/11/2024

Speaker

17/4/2024

Consultant

6/12/2023

Projects

Cairney, Maria (Principal Investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator) Lawson, Eleanor (Co-investigator) Ratanakul, Ketnipa (Researcher)

01-Jan-2025 - 02-Jan-2026

Timmins, Claire (Principal Investigator) Lawson, Eleanor (Co-investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025

Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Dokovova, Marie (Principal Investigator)

Hands on activities and demonstrations of the AAA software facilitated in Cardiff Metropolitan University.

25-Jan-2023 - 26-Jan-2023

Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Murali, Mridhula (Researcher) Kirkland, Paul (Academic) Cleland, Joanne (Academic)

A project investigating the use of neural networks in the automatic classification of /r/ tongue shapes, imaged with Ultrasound Tongue Imaging

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024

Cleland, Joanne (Principal Investigator) Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Smith, Amy (Researcher)

Impact Acceleration Account project, Funded value 拢2,389
Speech and Language Therapy at the University of 欧美高清 have been at the forefront of developing ultrasound technology for the diagnosis and treatment of speech disorders in children. Speech disorders are common in childhood, affecting social, emotional and educational prospects. Most intervention approaches involve the speech and language therapist (SLT) listening to children鈥檚 speech errors and providing verbal feedback. While this can be effective, our research at 欧美高清 demonstrates that children benefit from visual feedback of their tongue movements. By placing a medical ultrasound probe under the child鈥檚 chin, we can show them their tongue movements in real-time, allowing the SLT to give them more accurate feedback to help correct speech errors.
Through two EPSRC funded projects (Ultrax and Ultrax2020) joint with the University of Edinburgh, we have improved the ultrasound technology, making it more suitable for use in the speech therapy clinic and have developed automatic ways (using artificial intelligence) to classify speech disorder types. We have also run two Chief Scientist Office (CSO) funded intervention studies (one ongoing) which show that this can be an effective treatment. In parallel to this, Eleanor Lawson (Chancellor fellow since 2022, formerly at Queen Margaret University) has developed a suite of web resources (funded by AHRC, ESRC, RSE and the Carnegie Trust) which host ultrasound, MRI and animations of speech movements for training clinicians and linguists in speech production. An ongoing ESRC project (lead by Lawson with Cleland as Co-I) is currently developing a website 鈥淪peech Therapy Animation and imaging Resource- STAR鈥�, which will house example ultrasound videos of speech disorders for training SLT students, with a secondary aim of improving understanding of and promoting ultrasound tongue imaging in SLT. All of these research projects include ongoing collection of impact evidence gathered using questionnaires and focus groups.
It is clear that what is missing from both our research and impact are training materials for clinicians specifically in how to use ultrasound in intervention with children. This funding would allow us to develop multi-media resources specifically for this purpose, accelerating the clinical implementation of our work. We have already developed an open access manual for delivering ultrasound-based intervention https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/63372/ , and we have developed teaching materials for in-person training with ultrasound. This funding would specifically be used to develop videos of clinicians delivering ultrasound intervention- featuring real children with speech disorders (with consent- covered by our current NHS ethical approval and additional consent to use the videos for marketing purposes) at the Glasgow Children鈥檚 Hospital. We would also use the funding to record and edit ultrasound analysis videos (i.e. videos showing tongue movements, rather than videos showing the SLT and child) of real teaching moments in intervention to illustrate the key steps in helping children to improve their speech errors. Both materials will be made in collaboration with the Glasgow Children鈥檚 hospital who are currently undertaking ultrasound-based therapy as part of a CSO funded clinical trial (PI Cleland).

01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2023

Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator) Lawson, Eleanor (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025